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languages, it represents the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative /ɬ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨ll⟩ in the Welsh language. El with hook was officially added...

to voicing (before voiced obstruents except ⟨v⟩) or devoicing (before voiceless consonants and at the end of words); spelling in these cases is morphophonemic...

(/taˈizo/, "I feed"). Although it is not a diacritic, the hypodiastole (comma) has in a similar way the function of a sound-changing diacritic in a handful...

are substituted with sh and zh in some written texts, although this is considered incorrect. Otherwise, the h in sh represents a voiceless glottal fricative...

vowels towards /i/ (iotacism). development of the voiceless aspirated plosives /pʰ/ and /tʰ/ to the voiceless fricatives /f/ and /θ/, respectively; the similar...

separated by a comma. The semicolon is used for a more significant pause then the comma. It may mean an intermediate division between the comma and the period...

The semicolon is used for divisions of a sentence greater than that with the comma. The colon is used before direct speech and quotes, after a generalizing...

de, ge), but before sonorants (el, en) and voiceless fricatives (ef, es). The vowel a is used for ⟨h⟩ and the voiceless plosives ⟨p⟩, ⟨t⟩, ⟨k⟩, after the...

voiced and voiceless stop consonants (b, d, g, and p, t, k, respectively). The primary effects of the shift were the following below. Voiceless stops became...

dropped altogether, with the idea that they should be indicated with diacritics: ʮ for z̩ʷ is one. In addition, the rare voiceless implosive series ƥ ƭ...

for the voiceless plosive /k/. The letter ⟨K⟩ was used only rarely, in a small number of words such as Kalendae, often interchangeably with ⟨C⟩. After...

respectively. The letters Ģ, Ķ, Ļ and Ņ are written with a cedilla or a small comma placed below (or, in the case of the lowercase g, above). They are modified...

concerning use of commas—subordinate clauses are almost always marked off with a comma, while it is normally considered incorrect to use a comma before a coordinating...

also be found in use for Modern Greek. Although it is not a diacritic, the comma has a similar function as a silent letter in a handful of Greek words, principally...

less distant from its Siculo-Arabic ancestor than is Standard Maltese. Voiceless stops are only lightly aspirated and voiced stops are fully voiced. Voicing...

pronounced [sˤ], like Arabic ص (pharyngealized voiceless alveolar fricative), like English voiceless "s" but with the tongue a little retracted. ק‎ (Qoph) is...

different sounds (the voiced and voiceless dental fricatives) (see Pronunciation of English th), and the voiceless alveolar sibilant can be represented...

common. Nouns written with -i usually have plurals in -is but some in -ies are also found. In Old and Middle English, voiceless fricatives /f/ and /θ/...

includes the following: ፠ section mark ፡ word separator ። full stop (period) ፣ comma ፤ semicolon ፥ colon ፦ preface colon (introduces speech from a descriptive...

Norwegian 'compound tone' (double tone) with ⟨ˇ⟩ before the syllable. A voiced sound was marked by ⟨◌̬⟩ and a voiceless one by ⟨◌̥⟩. Retroflex consonants were...